Five-Skull Island And Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago

Five-Skull Island And Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago is a collection of short stories by Alexander Montgomery. Excerpt: «From beneath this stony canopy slipped noiselessly out the white man. With a dozen strokes he reached the prahu, clambered up by the rudder, jumped inboard, and grabbed his rifle from the top of the after-house; left there because–though Sondur understood well enough a normal musket–the Winchester was for him an awful mystery. The Ké-man sprang up and stood ready for a jump overboard. Také turned, found herself looking into the rifle-barrel–shut her eyes, and waited for execution.»